The Syracuse Journal, Volume 26, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 September 1933 — Page 4

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Call a Cop By Charles Francis Coe Kmtoeot Cnmino4o<i»t and Author of "Mr • * ♦Gan<»WT. , “*Swas."“Vc<«a" and other •tartlin* encne atoriaa.

THE REMEDY FOR IT ALL article Ko; J IN A recent notorious case three grand juries were conducting separate investigations of the same crime. Three prosecutor* jwere seeking solution ot the crime tind conviction of the same criminal. Three state governments wire trying th find what they ought to do about It. 1 During this time the criminal was living.* riotous life on the proceeds of bls endeavors. That is not unusual, but It Is ridiculous. The cost Is beyond all sense and reason. It is as criminal as the Crime under Investl gation. ' . | A man shot a wan in Neiw York. He dragged the body to New Jersey and dumped it there. Then he dashed to Delaware to hide out. They found him there. I'hree Investigations were t ■ in to !< ermine what to do with him and where to du it. Two extraditions were necessary to bring the kilter to trial. Mounting taxes and Infinite delay for offended society! That Is a simple case. Take any thr«»e states and coun.ties and the same would be true. All this abets the criminal. He runs to another ■ • i to accomplish the very delay that accrues. ’ While juries meditate what to do shyster lawyers produce a habeas corpus and the criminal has flown the Coop b.-fore there is any legal Instru inent to hold him. Thia was all too frequently true when the killing was a gang one and the habeas' financed !■> n,:,.;. i,« In Ix.otleg money. It I* equally all too true that the prosperity and safety of the criminal hare been predicated upon his money and |lts corruptive power Legal technicalities have served to liberate many a killer, and those technicalities have been discovered and allowed only because of influence. The connection between the police and the criminal U the most disas irons faced by aw iety Perfect it and s»>< >. ’v is utterly defenseless. Jt has .tome t > Its greatest fruition under prohibition because of lack of sym I atby for the l w and the ease with which ir.’lou.s have trickled Into un worthy palms. The criminal always lis ft oh the | . e who have taken . bribes. - They tuiVe it on prosecutors seeking re election and judges dependent itjs'ti the same thing It has made a vicious circle. Well-planned murder is ahnost Impossible, to detect and convict. This apparent lack of motive In people who had opportunity to kill. We may know the cause slid the source of murder ’i'Ut we cni>i;»t prove them in court. So murder le . oiues easy It .was easy because of this connection between the !. t w -ml. the law breaker. Such conportions .are inevitable In great cities with laws like prohibition battering at the foundations of honest enforce meat. N<.» how bneik-up that connection? With bootleggers turned racketeers i.. !:.i: ! •■« handle, them? The kidnaping will die away because no one can protect. It long. The racktfg will continue becat»e ; bus!-m--s timls It cheaper to pay tribute than to risk life and property fighting Yet w ; emust break tip the racket* It 1- my Judgment that federal ac t:<>!! is the only solution. Uncle Sam with hla long arm can reach over extraditions. He" can batter down al- < between law and crime. He can ‘l--p into a city and demand the facts. He can do that because he will not long remain in any one city. Not long enough for his officers to get tai gled In the web of dirty money that flows in the urban streets of America. The federal officer may not be more Inherently titan the. local Ont But be has an esprit de corps which only passing contact with local wadi l ions never can shatter. I favor a national police force for criminal Investigation and prosecution. I feel that the people of the country s«x»n will be forced to demand it. America's great cities have donth--! police,forces In the last 30 years, and the crime rates have Increased twice as much as the police! I see no need of county governments. They are an expense, a cumbersome method of maintaining politleai patronage, and generally a hindrance to direct and economical government Why the city or village should arrest a man for crime, only to have him tried by the county and Imprisoned by the state. I shall never understand If 1 rely upon political surveys by purveyors of political patronage, of course 1 might see a good reason for such round-about methods But I do not rely upon those. That Is a political chicanery which l»ng since has perished in the minds of a tax-burdened, crime-rid-den people. If every city In the United States did away with its criminal Investigation police and turned that function over to the federal government, I believe crime would be reduced to Its nu r I mum tn very brief time. If cities handled traffic, protected life and property and policed as the uniformed force generally does, there would be no important corruption. If, when major criminal offenses were recorded in any city, the federal government gave that city three days to apprehend the criminal, then, that falling, took over the investigation itself, there could be no corruption that would revert to destruction ot hone* Investigation and expeditious solution of crime. What la more, I believe that day will come. ; The detective* of the United States will be like its soldier* They win never know their next point of call They will operate under centralized orders from Washington. They will have at their fingertips a complete International identification bureau. They will use radio, telegraph, tale-

phone, photography, fingerprints, berttllon measurements. Use, in fact, every science known to criminal detection. And they will succeed in their job only as they succeed tn th* individual task* of solution laid upon their shoulder* And more than that, they will walk through absurd extradition folderoi as a fireman goes through a wisp of smoke. Crime will be against society, not against a county or a city or a state. Prosecution will be by society, not by a politically-controlled organisation dependent for a living upon the votes of a few communities. Crime will be a high menace to the decency of life, the administration of business and the sanctity of the home. It will be treated as such. Then solution will be sure In the vast majority of cases. Then prosecution will be genuine and speedy and efficacious. Then a change of venue will temper Justice with me.rcy and “mercenary" with justice. Until then the country will stagger along under ever-increasing police and prosecution costs. It will carry the endless burden of county bonds and i-ounty taxea. And by every Indication. crime will constantly increase. How many of America's great cities are solvent today? Why? America, with the most outrageous murder rate ever known to a civilised land. Is In my judgment, the most lawabiding nation on earth. This Is true because America stands for more ridiculous and polltlcan made laws than any other country. Technical legal expressions are the fruit of legalised ■ law-makers justifying their own existence Thev have specialized to auch " an extent that their complete success is the rout of common equity and average comprehension. Strictly speaking. not a single American is free from the taint of criminal activity. He may speed In his motor car. A crime! He may not sound his horn. A crime! He may run a wire to light his chicken coop and forget that he should apply for a permit. jA crime! I could go ufi forever. .Millions of laws govern Americans and the greatest of the legal minds have not the slightest Idea of most of them, nor their Import. A favorite court procedure is to face a situation requiring adjudication, then cast back as far as necessary for a precedent by which to judge It. In this age. when the machine and science and Invention have altered the whole course of human life, legal lights frequently cast back for precedent to the judgment of men who never dreamed of a horseless carriage, who read by the light of a tallow candle, bathed in an iron tub. let their teeth decay as the years passed, and because It traveled 25 miles an hour the railroad train as a device of the devil for the destruction of man. This must pass. America will throw off this yoke of archaic habit. The people, fed up with Main street murders. Idiotic legal subterfuge* hnd outright corruption, will assert themselves. They will put a direct question. They will want and they will get a direct answer. You will be entirely safe In the prognostication that when they do get it It will come from one no less than Uncle Sam himself. When the beard of that gentleman bristled with Indignation and hie mighty biceps writhe for s whack at the desperado who 1* the national problem and the Internationa) disgrace, things will happen. Not until then! Scotland Yard offers a lot America can learn. Half as efficient as the New York police, it is twice as effective Mussolini offers a ponderable thought to Americans. Undertaking government when his country was crime-ridden and virtually hopeless of deliverance, he has cleaned it up. poltohed It. renewed Its public pride. He offers It as a sample of what centralised power can do when It comes to decapitating a monster spawned in Ignorance, nurtured ou the milk of murder, trained to the bras* knuckle and the blackjack, and .fattened upon the lethargic and somewhat hopeless Incomprehension of a great people with too much faith tn those who bsve usurped the powers of their local, governing functions. Call a cop! Call a cop by all means. But may Ood grant that he will, fig-j uratlvely. wear striped trousers, a spangled coat, a flaring plug hat and a flowing beard. Then he will be the cop who will spell deliverance for American business and home life. He will be Uncle Bam. <g. IMS. M Mart* Amarkcaa ililug, lac.-r-WNU- Svcvtcv ) Short-Term Senator The membership of the senate Is divided into thirds so that one-third expire* every two year* When a senator dies or resign* leaving an unexpired term, his successor Is appointed or elected only for the remainder of the term. This is referred to as a short term. Sometime* it may happen that at the November election a candidate Is running for election for the short term which would have lasted until inauguration day. and either he or some other candidate would be running for the long term which would last for six years beginning with the following term. ROUND TABLE MEETS . The Ladies of the Round enjoyed a chicken dinner at the home of Mrs. Wilma Hire, Monday evening. Hostesses were: Mrs. Darr, Mrs. Rapp, Mrs. Connolly, Mr*. Bowersox and Mrs. Hiro. There were 13 guests present. A short business program was held following the dinner. 1 o - S. <S. CLASS MEET. The Wide Awake Sunday school class of the Church of God met Tuesday night at th* home of Clee Hibachman. There were 23 member* and 21 children present. Games were enjoyed and . refreshments served. ——c - It is said that a sore toe started Joan Biondell on the way to stardom. Well, a lot of people get out of the limelight by cultivating sore heads.

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Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Click and daughters Catherine and Geraldine spent Saturday at the Century of Progress exposition, and motored on to Napersville, 111., and spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Thorne. Mrs. Thorne is a niece of Mr. Klick and will be remembered as Miss Mildred Rarick, who taught ..two terms of school at “Africa. ” Earl Gipe of Columbia City and Ezra Shock made a business trip to South Bend, Monday. Elmo Shock and family spent Sunday at the Warsaw City Park where they were guests at a birthday party complimentary to Mrs. Avery Garbei and Mrs. Chester Payne. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Weimer, Clarence Lewallen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Lew-1 alien, Cecil Lozier, Fred Kuhn, El- i mer Baugher and family. Miss Katherine Kern, Leander Yoder and. family, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phelps) and daughter, Mrs. Mollie Hood and the families of Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Garber. , Will Gipe of near Columbia City spent Monday with Jonas Cripe. *ln the afternoon they called on Henry Kolberg, who is ill at his home. Mrs. Harry Widgard called on Mrs. Sally Roomershine, Monday. ) The latter is seriously ill at the home of her sister, Mrs. Aaron McClintic. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Shock spent Monday evening in the Elmo Shock home. Mr. Mrs. John Shock of Mishawaka were Sunday guests in the Eli Shock home. \ Mrs. Fred Kline called on her daughter, Mrs. Milo Klingerman, Friday afternoon. . TIPPECANOE Arby Hodge and wife called at the J. L. Kline home, Sunday. Mrs. J. L. Kline, Mrs. StanleyMorehead and daughter called on Mrs. J. Garber, Wednesday. Miss Lillie Tom spent the week end at home. Jacob Eberly and Noble Kline visited the Glick home, Sundayevening. Mr. and Mrs. J. Garber and Royal Kline took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Robison of Leesburg. __ . Mrs. J. A. Baugher is very ill at this writing. J. L. Kline and family called at the James Rothenljerger home, Sunday. W. Mock called on Noble Kline, Wednesday evening. Charles Bigler and wife took Sunday dinner with their daughter, Mrs. George Weller. RICHVILLE Mr. and Mrs. George McDaniel and son Harold spent Sunday with LaTone Jensen and wife. Harry Hire has purchased a new team of iron gray horses.' Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whitmer spent Sunday with Sylvester Unrue and wife. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Granger spent Tuesday last week in the J. Stettler horn?. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Treadway were callers in the Geo. McDaniel home, Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Petro and family Qf Indianapolis spent Labor Day. vacation in the Henry Whitmer home. Their son Junior returned home with them. Quite a number in this vicinity are filling silos this week. Jess Hanshew and family of Goshen called on the Carl Stettler family, Sunday. FOUR CORNERS. Mr. and Mrs. James Chilcote of Nappanee spent Sunday at the home of George Colwell of Syrscuse, and also called at the home of Crist Darr. Mr. and Mrs. James Myers spent Tuesday at their cottage and at the home of William Fisher of Wawasee. Mr. and Mr*. A. W. Geyer called at the home of Earl Darr near Goshen, Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr and Mr. and Mr*. Charles Deithrick and two children of near Goshen were callers at the A. W. Geyer home, Sunday evening,. , Messrs and Mesd&mes Snyder and Geyer called in New Paris, Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr spent Sunday at the home of Earl Darr near Goehen. Lewis Umbaugh of New Pari* was a recent caller in the Darr home. ZION. Mr*. Emory Guy spent Sunday with her parent*. Melvin Niles and family spent Sunday with Jesse Miller and family. Mr. and Mr*. Harry Nicolai spent Sunday with the form*r*s grandmother near Benton. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Smith and family of Goshen called on Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy, Tuesday evening. Th* Honor clan of Zion church and their teacher met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Henwood, Friday night. About 20 members and guests were present. Min Marjorie Smith spent Satur-

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day night with Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy. - Mrs. Ell* L*Count of Cromwell is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strieby. wesFend Mr. and MrsT W. E. Sheffield were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Morehouse, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Cal Farney, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Farney and daughter of Goshen were Sunday evening guests there. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Rowdabaugh and children spent the week end at North Manchester and while there attended the Isley reunion on Saturday at Long Lake. Saturday night they stayed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emsley Bonnurtz. Sunday they attended the Bussard Glory school reunioin at the Bussard school house, six miles west of North Manchester. They returned home Sunday evening and had as their guests that night, MY. and Mrs. Craten Isley, George Isley and Malen Isley of Shelby, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Neff are spending this week in Chicago attending the World’s Fair. Mr. j and Mrs. Floyd Rowdabaugh spent three days in Chicago last week attending the fair. Mrs. Melvin Rensberger of LaVern, Cal., is spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rowdabaugh, Mrs. B. H Doll, Mrs. M. Truax, Mrs. E. Mast, Mrs. C. Stevenson of Elkhart called on Mrs. W. E. Sheffield, Friday, afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Vorhis moved from the Rev. M. Deeter home near Leesburg to the Dewey Coy home on Road 6 east of Bethany. Mrs. Howard Watkins, who was very ill in the.Goshen hospital last week is slowly improving. She was removed to her home near thp. Bethany church, Sunday. William Jarbo of, Lincoln, Neb., and his parents were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John McGarity. Mr. and Mrs. John McGarity and David McGarity attended the funeral of Joe Jarvis, Saturday afternoon at BristoL Mr. and Mrs. Orba Weybright spent Friday in Goshen at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Culler. There will be a harvest meeting at Bethany church, Sunday, Sept. 24. Basket dinner at noon, Rev. G.

☆ >ira, - "—- — ■ - Proud and glad to do our part ” a= .■ = WITH President Roosevelt’s acceptance of the On August Ist of thia year, Chevrolet announced a NBA Automobile Code, Chevrolet, the blanket wage increase as well as the adoption of a world’s largest builder of motor can, 7 5-day week and the employment of 12,000 officially begins operations in accordance with the additional men. Thia wage increase was the second administration’s recovery program. in the last 4 months, Chevrolet having been among Although the official code was signed only • few days the first to put a blanket wage increase into effect, ago, it wiU be of interest to Chevrolet’s many friends We fee | th>t the President’s recovery program deto learn that the Chevrolet Motor Company started serves the whole-hearted support of every citizen and to carry out the spirit of today’s recovery program manufacturer in America. It is a bold, swift, couraover three years ago! geous plan to start the ball rolling toward economic At that time, we put into operation a "share-the- ~ recovery. Its sincerity is unquestioned. Its objecwork" plan, whereby our workmen cooperated in • tives are admirable. And the direct, forceful steps spreading the work to give more men jobs. By means the President and his associates are taking to make of this plan, as well as by regulating hours of work j t a success, should stir the pride and admiration of per week to meet retail demand, and by building up every American parts stocks in lean seasons, it was possible to carry - 33.000 men on our payroll through the depression. We are proud and glad to do our part. And we are For eleven months of each year since 1929, we have deeply grateful to the American people for the .4 kept our employment within 10 per cent of this patronage that has enabled us to anticipate the average. We are justly proud of that record. We are present recovery program and to play our part also proud to aay that Chevrolet workmen did not, today. After all, the immense number of men em« at any time during the depression, berome a burden ployed by Chevrolet is a direct result of the cane on public welfare departments. tinned preference America has shown for Chevrolet* * .... «. CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT. MICHIGAN, Diouian of General Mctm CHEVROLET ' ■ ■ f ■ ■ ☆ ☆ * ■

Bowman of Middlebury is speaker of th* day. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Weybright spent last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Urbanna Huber. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Geyer "and family of Battle Creek, Mich., spent the week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Metz. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stage of Topeka were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sheffield. Mr. and Mrs. J. W Weybright and family, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gall. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rowdabaugh, )Ed Berkey, Mrs. Emma Baker were ) guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rowdabaugh, Sunday evening. DISMAL Howard and Harmon Harper returned to Lafayette, Friday, to return to Purdue University. . Roy Wilkinson, Miss Katie Bitner, Howard and Herschel Bitner drove to Waukegan, 111., Friday to visit Earl Bitner and wife, and to visit the Century of Progress exposition. Manford McCormick is now erai ployed ip Huntington. ' Mr. and Mrs. Clell Buchtel and Anna" called on Mr. and Mis. Banks at/ the Smallj- lake, Sunday , afternoon. Mrs. Roy Brownbridge and children spent Sunday with her parents. Milton Bitner and wife. Dora Clingerman and wife called on Mr. and Mrs. F. Baumgartner and children north of Millersburg, Sunday afternoon. SOLOMON’S CREEK A number of neighbors and friends gave Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sarjent an old-fashioned belling at their home on the farm owned by his brother Raymond, west of Benton, Friday evening. Guy Smith entertained his Sunday school class at a water melon party, last Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Will Zylman of Goshen attended the Heber reunion at the NattiCrow Beach, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Bertha Firestone'spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Art Nicolai. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nicolai spent . the week end at the Ringwait home. Miss Helen Hillbish spent Sunday with Miss Juanita Gushwa. j Mr. and Mrs. Chester Firestone

spent Friday with his mother, Mrs. Levi Burger of How*. Sunday school. Sunday morning. C. E. and proaching s*rvic**, Sunday evening. SALEM Reuben Mock and daughter, Waneta motored to Goshen, on Wednesday, and were dinner guests of Jesse Parson and family. George Auer and wife attended the funeral of the latter’s uncle in North Webster, Sunday. Reuben and Waneta Mock spent Friday afternoon in Rochester on business. Joe Smith and Lester Dewart spent the week end in Wabash with friends John Auer and wife called at the George Auer home, Sunday evening. Mrs. Emory Guy spent Sunday in the Joe Smith home. Ed Klinger and daughter Dorothy spent Saturday in Fort Wayne. CONCORD Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dean spent a few days last Week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.. James Gilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews and Mrs. Kate Mathews spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Neff. Rev. Emerson Frederick and family spent Monday at the James Dewart home. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stiffler and family spent Sunday evening at the Dewey Coy home. Mrs. Iva Coy called at the Ray LeCount home, Monday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Gilbert was a Caller at the Chester Stiffler home, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews and Mrs. Kate Mathews of Goshen spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs, John Roop. Everett Tom and family and Mrs. J. A. Fisher spent Sunday at the Guy Fisher home. Mrs. Girtie Wiley and son Joe of Michigan spent Sunday at their cottage at Redmon’s Park, DewartLake. "EV" CLASS MEETS The Fellowship Class of the Evangelical church met Tuesday evening at the home of Ralph Disher. There were 20 present. A picnic supper was enjoyed followed by the regular business session.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS The Journal is furnished with th* following transfers of real «*tat* by Houton C. Fraxer A Son, abstractors, W arsaw: Ernest Ormsby to Paul W and Burnette R. Know els, lot 93 Forest Glenn, Tippecanoe Lake, sl. Joseph T. Hemphling to Earl Tom and Mabie E. Knobel, 83 acres section 29 Van Buren township, sl. Edmund McClintic to Frank C. and Dora M. Scott, part lots 7 and 8, Syracuse, 31 k 100. Edward Chronister to David L. and Etta Walter, sxß rod tract in North Webster, sl. Oda M. Rarig to Grover C. and Edna Wright, lots 126 and 133 S. & W. addition, Syracuse, 31. Chas. C. Weimer to Edward and Emma Kane, lot 4 Weimer’s Lake- - view Park, sl. Laura M. Doswell to Ralph and Sadie Gunter, 4 acre tract, in front of Lots 6 to 17, Island Park, Chapman Lake, 31. o We are in favor of an agricultural code which will put a rigid limit on the number of seeds in a -watermelon /so ROUND TRIP TO (Chicago Every Week-end Travel in comfortable coache*. You will have ample time in Chicago for WORLD’S FAIR and other sightseeing and visiting. about othor Bargain FartJ Evary Woak-tnd to B 9 O points. For 4*Wo* coo—h Ttcfcot Asoot Baltimore & Ohio